The A’s and the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority have agreed on a 10-year lease extension to keep the club at the Coliseum through the 2024 season.

The Dodgers confirmed six international signings effective Wednesday, headed by 16-year-old Venezuelan outfielder Romer Cuadrado for a reported $750,000.

While Joey Votto will probably continue to maintain he is 100 percent if he’s in the Reds’ lineup, the first baseman’s balky left leg is clearly not. Manager Bryan Price has often said Votto is less than 100 percent since he returned from a left quadriceps strain near his knee. But it’s become clear that a Votto at 70-75 percent in the lineup is better than no Votto at all.

One-point-two percent. This minuscule figure will forever be tethered to Jarrod Dyson. It represents the number of 50th-round picks who have reached the Major Leagues since the inaugural Draft in 1965.

The reason Betts has outraced the projections with his pace of development is actually because of something that is a direct contrast to the speed that he so often displays on the bases and on defense. Betts, you see, is able to slow the game down.

Joe Kelly will make two more Minor League rehab starts, manager Mike Matheny said on Thursday, which means the Cardinals do not plan on having him back in their rotation until after the All-Star break.

Yankees Minor League pitcher Alfredo Aceves has been suspended 50 games without pay for a second violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

Every lineup, every day, as they are made public by the clubs.

With the season now past the halfway point, Seattle has proven to be one of the American League’s biggest surprises with a 47-38 start — a 10-win improvement from last year’s 85-game mark.

By Wednesday, Aramis Ramirez had a day to contemplate the latest round of National League All-Star balloting results, and the idea that he might just be the league’s starting third baseman for the first time in nearly a decade.

Yangervis Solarte, who won a job on the Yankees roster with his bat in Spring Training and proceeded to keep hitting through the first week of June, was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after Wednesday’s 6-3 loss to Tampa Bay. The Yankees replaced Solarte by signing infielder Zelous Wheeler.

Through May, the San Francisco Giants mostly streaked. They even flirted with going uncontested atop their division through September, in search of a third world championship in five seasons. In contrast, the Los Angeles Dodgers were a mess, but that was before the calendar flipped to June — and then the Giants were a mess, and the Dodgers mostly streaked.

After two incredible seasons, the American League MVP Award will no longer belong to Cabrera. It’s going to the best player in the world, the Angels’ 22-year-old center fielder who’s having a runaway MVP summer. Mike Trout.

Many starting spots in the Midsummer Classic are still up for grabs in the final hours of All-Star balloting, and you can help to put your favorite player over the top by voting before 11:59 p.m. ET tonight.

If the 2014 AL and NL lineups, which will be unveiled during Sunday’s Taco Bell All-Star Selection Show (7 p.m. ET, ESPN), were based 100 percent on in-season statistical merit, who would be the starters at each position?

As the baseball dropped toward the glove of a charging Michael Brantley in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s 10-3 win in Los Angeles, Dee Gordon tagged up at third base and prepared for a sprint to the plate. It was a shallow fly ball off the bat of Adrian Gonzalez, but deep enough to tempt Gordon to test Brantley’s power and precision. Runners have been making that mistake all season long.

After learning of his promotion, after just one hour of sleep, after two flights that took him from sunny Florida to upstate New York, and after an 0-for-2 debut with the Binghamton Mets, Brandon Nimmo learned that, yes, this really is a step closer to the big leagues.